I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was...
Times have changed.
I remember thinking that about a gigabit hard drive that I ordered from Gateway. I specifically thought, "There is no way that I can ever use all of this."
Not many people these days understand that Steam used to suck bad.
I have heard that people used to be super PISSED that steam is required for valve games. I guess it makes sense now considering hdd sizes back then.
I've never been pissed off over a game before i even played it, except for Half Life 2.
Full game on the disk.
Requires internet to install.
Requires Steam.
This was before broadband, so the awesome game you bought hung over won't be installed until late tonight, instead of the normal 10 minutes off the cd.
Now what sucks is that people are okay with underaged kids gambling because, come on, it's Steam!
I might be hijacking conversations too much...
wait till you hear about CCGs
So. 1 TB drives indeed were out before Half-Life 3.
But I'm nostalgic over a simpler time when 1 GB for a game was a lot.
We'll have petabyte drives for $50 before HL3 appears.
Most of the people that made half life 1 and 2 are gone I think. Even if they made half life 3 it likely wouldn't be the game we wanted all those decades ago
People really liked Half-Life Alyx so whoever is in the development team is still capable of making a game people love. Though, ultimately, whether a hypotetical release of Half-Life 3 could live up to the hype or not is irrelevant since no such game will ever be released.
Half life 3 will simply never live up to the hype/fantasy people have for it ( I think ).
After all this time I feel they're either never going to release it, or release it when the bar from the public becomes... Realistic.
I don't think they care much about general public expectations, they released Alyx with general public not even having an option to play it. If HL3 will ever be released by the current Valve it will be a game they are proud of themselves to produce.
That was maybe true once, but it's fading into nothing but a meme. Half life is just not relevant for newer generations.
But that may just be the opportunity... Giving them a reason to care.
Looks at 500 gb New Vegas install
Yeah I don't see the problem here.
How is that even possible? Even with 8k retextures of every single asset of the game I can't imagine it being half that size.
Uncompressed audio and way too many mods with unique assets, also I think something duplicated a bunch of random assets. I've tried to fix it but noooo apparently duped ruble13 is load bearing. But hey at least it doesn't CTD so there's that, ignore NPCs just not spawning and some terrain just not appearing note this is not due to conflicts it fits when I restart the game and I don't know if it's the SSD or not.
Lol.
I've now got Steam games spread across 5 hard drives. One of which is a 5tb old school disk drive for the games I have A LOT of user made content for. I've gotta be in the terrabytes range at this point.
Lol those were the days. I remember Simcity 4 releasing back then and how quickly my mod folder blue up. Then by the time that game was old it was only 2.15gb and that was nothing. The jump from >10gb to 50gb games was insane. Now the jump to 100+ Gb hurts a lot. Any time a game is iN MB I do a little happy dance.
I remember clearing drive space on my first computer once, I went off of install size and anything other than a couple of key games that took up multiple hundreds of Mb got the boot and anything less than 100 Mb stayed installed for a bit longer. When you've only got a 40GB drive, thems the choices you have to make!
Meanwhile I've seen Fortnite literally fail to update with less than 100GB free because it needs to modify so many files in its gigantic install
Oh that poor innocent soul. They must not have been old enough to remember needing boot disks because your 90s jalopy couldn't handle Warcraft or Myst.
Lol next thing you know they'll sneak HL3 into a VR game
... oh
HL:A isn't bad though
Yell that to everyone that refuses to recognize it's HL:3
Who cares about the number. It's obviously not meant to be the "3" people were waiting for, but it's a Half Life game giving us lore anyways
There will never be a HL:3 anyways. We're doomed now.
Damn I miss half-life mods.
Action Half-Life represent
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